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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in York County, Maine

York County, Maine has 435 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1914–1993. MSHA's register carries 58 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering York County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
435
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
58
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits34 quadrangle maps, published 1914–1993 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    86 19.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    349 80.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned58 on register
  1. Acton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Outdoor Living Supply LLC · MSHA ID 1700865
    Abandoned
  2. Anderson
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Septic Tank Pumping Inc · MSHA ID 1701189
    Abandoned
  3. Andre Picard Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Andre Picard Excavating · MSHA ID 1700658
    Abandoned
  4. Chase & Hamlyn Mineral Extractions Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chase & Hamlyn Mineral Extractions Inc · MSHA ID 1700651
    Abandoned
  5. CRAWFORD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · RC CONSTRUCTION · MSHA ID 1700769
    Abandoned
  6. Dave Tarbox Sr Trucking-Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Tarbox Sr Trucking-Excavating · MSHA ID 1700768
    Abandoned
  7. ECCO CONCRETE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ecco Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 1700638
    Abandoned
  8. Frost Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M Shapleigh Construction Company · MSHA ID 1700389
    Abandoned
  9. Goldmark LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goldmark LLC · MSHA ID 1700876
    Abandoned
  10. Goodwin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L W Morgridge & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1700458
    Abandoned
  11. GRAVEL WORLD INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel World Inc · MSHA ID 1700649
    Abandoned
  12. GREAT EAST CRUSHING W-PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · GREAT EAST CRUSHING LLC · MSHA ID 1701084
    Abandoned
  13. H Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. Pepin & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 1700849
    Abandoned
  14. Hay Brook Minerals
    Surface metal/non-metal · HDC New England Inc · MSHA ID 1700743
    Abandoned
  15. HOGBACK INC. SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · HOGBACK INC. SAND & GRAVEL · MSHA ID 1700774
    Abandoned
  16. Hollis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woods Excavating LLC · MSHA ID 1701065
    Abandoned
  17. INTERSTATE SOILS LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · INTERSTATE SOILS LLC · MSHA ID 2700390
    Abandoned
  18. KENNEBUNKPORT MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · R H Brown · MSHA ID 1700530
    Abandoned
  19. MICK CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mick Construction Corp · MSHA ID 1700644
    Abandoned
  20. MICK CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mick Construction Corp · MSHA ID 1700659
    Abandoned
  21. Midway Pit and Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spectrum Resources International, LLC · MSHA ID 1700979
    Abandoned
  22. NEWFIELD SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. PEPIN & SONS INC · MSHA ID 1700753
    Abandoned
  23. Old Acton Airfield
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Materials LLC · MSHA ID 1700755
    Abandoned
  24. OLD ACTON AIRFIELD
    Surface metal/non-metal · G. KING CONSTRUCTION · MSHA ID 1700771
    Abandoned
  25. Old York Quarry Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Old York Quarry Inc. · MSHA ID 1700871
    Abandoned
  26. Perkins Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Perkins Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2700408
    Abandoned
  27. Pettigrew Brothers Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pettigrew Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1700384
    Abandoned
  28. Plymouth VT
    Surface metal/non-metal · William A. Renaud, Jr. Trucking Inc. · MSHA ID 1700886
    Abandoned
  29. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Swenson Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 1700800
    Abandoned
  30. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lebanon Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1700597
    Abandoned
  31. Portable Plant - Pegson Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. Pepin and Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 1700952
    Abandoned
  32. PORTABLE PLANT S/N 20020
    Surface metal/non-metal · STS Construction · MSHA ID 1700616
    Abandoned
  33. Portable Screen No 55-709
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maine Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 1700524
    Abandoned
  34. Portable Unit # 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gorham Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1700663
    Abandoned
  35. PORTABLE UNIVERSAL CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bentley Warren Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1700656
    Abandoned
  36. Pullen Pit A
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mainely Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700581
    Abandoned
  37. QUARRY RD. PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Brien Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700665
    Abandoned
  38. RAMSDELL STONE & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ramsdell Stone & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700643
    Abandoned
  39. Rawson Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dearborn Brothers Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1700906
    Abandoned
  40. Remick Lane Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Abbott Brothers · MSHA ID 1700110
    Abandoned
  41. ROCK BOTTOM SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Bottom Sand & Gravel L.L.C. · MSHA ID 1700700
    Abandoned
  42. Rock Enterprises
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Enterprises · MSHA ID 1701071
    Abandoned
  43. Saco Dayton Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saco Dayton Incorporated · MSHA ID 1700750
    Abandoned
  44. SACO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vito Mininni Inc · MSHA ID 1700138
    Abandoned
  45. Sandvik QE340 Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · H.L. Patten Construction Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 1700898
    Abandoned
  46. Southern Maine Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Maine Aggregates · MSHA ID 1701016
    Abandoned
  47. SOUTHERN MAINE NURSERY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Litro Corp · MSHA ID 1700652
    Abandoned
  48. T H Tingley Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · T H Tingely Inc · MSHA ID 1700612
    Abandoned
  49. The Swamp John Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Wells · MSHA ID 1700344
    Abandoned
  50. Thompson Hill Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thompson Hill Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 1700885
    Abandoned
  51. Try Berwick Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Try Berwick Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700982
    Abandoned
  52. Usher Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Risbara Bros Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1700980
    Abandoned
  53. W-Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great East Crushing · MSHA ID 1701127
    Abandoned
  54. Warren Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Dover-Foxcroft · MSHA ID 1700395
    Abandoned
  55. Wash Plant and Cone Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · R Pepin & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1700334
    Abandoned
  56. West Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Warren Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1700440
    Abandoned
  57. York Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · A Marcuri & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1700112
    Abandoned
  58. York Stone Company Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shoals Corp · MSHA ID 1700030
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Gravel Pit 111
Gravel Pit 53
Disturbed Surface 44
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 39
Sand and Gravel Pit 38
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 33
Sand Pit 30
Borrow Pit 27
Sand and Gravel Pit 26
Borrow Pit 9
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Sand Pit 7
Quarry 5
Quarry 2
Quarry - Rock 1
Clay Pit 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
    597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
  2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
    States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
  3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
    One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
  4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
    Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
  5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
    Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
  6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
    Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
  7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
    The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
  8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
    Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.